The Ars crew stayed at the Las Vegas Hotel, conveniently located right next to the Las Vegas Convention Center.

Chris Foresman

The Ars crew stayed at the Las Vegas Hotel, conveniently located right next to the Las Vegas Convention Center.

Andrew Cunningham

January 8th is Elvis Presley's birthday! So glad we didn't forget this year.

Andrew Cunningham

Plenty had already happened at CES, but the show floor didn't even open until Tuesday.

Ridin' the escalator in the Las Vegas Convention Center.

Chris Foresman

Lee marvels at the flexibility of Canon's 24-105mm f/4 L-series lens, which he rented to use at CES.

Florence posing in front of JVC's 3D camera.

Casey Johnston

A jar of earphone caps.

Kyle Orland

Kyle tries out this rad Thrustmaster racing and flight simulation setup. Complete with a force feedback chair and three screens, it can be yours for the low, low price of $40,000. The steering wheel alone is a cool $600.

Kyle Orland

A particularly nasty bump in the virtual racing seat knocks a wisp of balding hair out of place.

In the future, this is what clothes will look like.

Chris Foresman

Chris Foresman says: I'm personally not a fan of iPhone cases, but I grew to like the new ampjacket while at CES. The lightweight case acts as a passive amplifier for the iPhone's built in speaker, and it still fits comfortably in your pants pocket.

Chris Foresman

LaCie had its new limited edition, designer hard drive on hand at CES. The heavy, solid metal chassis was designed by Philippe Starck and bears a passing resemblance to the mega-yacht he designed for the late Steve Jobs.

There are hundreds of companies hawking cases and headphones for iPhone and Android users. Trying to stand out from the crowd can lead to products like this: plush, animal print headphones with built-in ears.

Andrew Cunningham

Imagination Technology's Caustic R2500 ray tracing card: something cool that you'll actually be able to buy later this month.

Kyle Orland

iRobot demonstrates a telepresence doctor roaming the showfloor aisles, just looking for sick people, I guess.

Kyle Orland

If this portable NES/SNES combo with TV output and controller inputs had come out in 1993 or so, I would have wet my pants with excitement.

Chris Foresman

Since thousands of tech journalists are covering CES, the press room fills up quickly.

Chris Foresman

The new Nessie USB microphone from Blue is sort of an evolution of its affordable Snowball. It has built-in DSP hardware for dynamic, adaptive processing specifically for voice and music recording.

LEGO Mindstorms EV3 is built around this third-generation Mindstorms power brick, which can connect to a smartphone or tablet for remote control.

This little guy is one of the five robot designs included with the new LEGO Mindstorms EV3.

Canon was showing off its perplexing PowerShot N camera, which is purportedly designed to "maximize creativity." The tiny digicam has unusual zoom and shutter controls which are actually metal rings around the lens.

Chris Foresman

Polaroid is the latest camera company to jump on the Android camera bandwagon. Its new camera will ship with 4.1 Jellybean.

Chris Foresman

Nikon was showing off its newest DSLR, the mid-range D5200. It has a 24MP APS-C size sensor, an articulating LCD display, and tons of buttons and dials.